BATON ROUGE--As expected, Louisiana's largest teachers association, some of its local chapters, and four individual public school teachers have filed two state lawsuits challenging the primary portions of the sweeping education overhaul that Gov. Bob ...
Posted Wednesday, June 13th 2012 at 11:02AM
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AustrianTimes.com--Sometimes, 115 years of togetherness is enough. Bibi and Poldi, two giant tortoises at the Austrian Zoo, are (slowly) going their separate ways after more than a century of companionship.
The straw that broke the turtle's back ...
Posted Wednesday, June 13th 2012 at 10:41AM
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Salt-N-Pepa is an American hip hop trio from Queens and Brooklyn, New York, that was formed in 1985. The group, consisting of Cheryl James ("Salt"), Sandra Denton ("Pepa") and Deidra Roper ("DJ Spinderella"), was the first all-female rap ...
Posted Tuesday, June 12th 2012 at 12:23PM
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NEW ORLEANS – Robin Roberts, who overcame breast cancer five years ago, is battling another health scare.
The “Good Morning America” anchor announced Monday that she has myelodysplastic syndrome, a disease of the blood and bone marrow, that was ...
Posted Monday, June 11th 2012 at 8:51PM
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STEVIE WONDER ~ HISTORY
Born Stevland Hardaway Judkins in Saginaw, Michigan, United States, to Calvin Judkins and Lula Mae Hardaway. Due to being born six weeks premature, Stevie Wonder was born with a condition called retinopathy of p ...
Posted Monday, June 11th 2012 at 8:39PM
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ROYAL OAK, Mich. – Outside Burn Rubber, a sneaker boutique that plans to sell Kanye West's highly anticipated Nike Air Yeezy II Saturday morning at a 400% markup, a secondary economy flourishes amid the colorful camping chairs lined up on the sidewal ...
Posted Sunday, June 10th 2012 at 4:20PM
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Peace,
There has been a lot of talk concerning Creflo Dollar's recent assault on his 15 year old daughter and whether or not his actions were "justified". While I agree with most people that Creflo went a little too far in his discipline methods t ...
Posted Sunday, June 10th 2012 at 3:09PM
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"GO DOWN MOSES" ~ HISTORY
"Go Down Moses" is an American Negro spiritual. It describes events in the Old Testament of the Bible, specifically Exodus 7:16: "And the Lord spoke unto Moses, go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, thus saith the Lord, ...
Posted Saturday, June 9th 2012 at 6:39PM
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Huffington Post--Having played God in Bruce Almighty, Morgan Freeman revealed he has an affinity towards that which is beyond us, according to Reuters.
When asked about his attraction to roles larger than life in an interview, he replied, "I thin ...
Posted Saturday, June 9th 2012 at 6:25PM
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CHICAGO--Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-III) made the case for an immediate increase in the federal minimum wage to $10.00 an hour during a press conference on the Hill Wednesday.
If passed, the ¡°Catching Up To 1968 Act of 2012¡å would be the first ...
Posted Friday, June 8th 2012 at 6:29PM
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